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Author:

Peck, Demaree C., 1959-

Title:

The imaginative claims of the artist in Willa Cather's fiction : "possession granted by a different lease" / by Demaree C. Peck.

Publisher:

Susquehanna University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

342 p. 23 cm.

Subject:

Cather, Willa,--1873-1947--Artists.--Artists.
Art and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Artists in literature.
Imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The explicable presence of "the thing not named" -- Alexander's bridge : Cather's bridge to the soul -- A pioneer in art : staking out the claim to consciousness in O pioneers! -- Thea Kronborg's "Song of myself" : the artist's imaginative inheritance in The song of the lark -- My Àntonia : the imaginative possession of childhood -- "Strong in attack but weak in defence" : defending the usurped territory in A lost lady -- "Letting something go" : the costs of self-possession in The professor's house -- "How to recover a bishopric" : Cather's recovery of the imaginative territory in Death comes for the archbishop -- "The ownership that was right" : imaginative bonds of slavery in Sapphira and the slave girl -- "Making it over until it becomes a personal possession" : Willa Cather and the reader.

ISBN:

9780945636878 (alk. paper)
0945636873 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)33101628

LCCN:

95040624

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)